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Book 5

Siha: Rise of Rakhana

Part III

"Silver and Fire"

Pulling her up as she walks the final few feet over the side of the shaft, Tetonbaum wraps his arm around her waist and eases the strain of holding her by the one good arm.

Braith leans back against the limb of ironlike muscle, keeping her supported from falling back into the canister far below, as she rests against the ache and his chest.

"Thank you."

He looks at the shaft's wall behind her, his nose pulling in the scent of her skin and hair. He blinks, lost in thought no more as he looks down at her collar and shoulders, "…What now of us? I cannot go back to Merce'des empty-handed. You will not be able to reunite with my brother nor Ylyssus."

"I should be able to find them." Braith lifts her chin off his shoulder, and looks at him, eyes close to his, "…You can't be enemies with Casnar. It breaks his heart, Tetonbaum…"

He casts his sapphires down and aside, not having relinquished his hold of her, not really noticing why he is doing so, "…He will never forgive me…"

"He will forgive you if I forgive you…Ylyssus, too."

Tetonbaum shakes his head, "…And the twins are afraid..."

"They will forget about it…Try not to kill me again, will you?"

He wets his lips and looks at her, "…I want my wife, Braith…Please help me."

She smiles hesitantly, "…I'll do what I can."

In the darkness her power curls against his, that friction returned. Tetonbaum feels himself stirred, however, smelling her blood, feeling her signature, touching as they are after successful teamwork to escape that hold below…

He wonders what it would be like to alter the future...

Braith steps to the side and tries to leave the crook of his arm.

He doesn't let her go...She looks at him, "…Tetonbaum, hey," she moves his arm away from her body, "…you okay?"

"I have considered something…Something I am averse to, but perhaps…perhaps it would alter the path that is setting to be…"

"What do you mean?"

"Were I to give you a child…"

"No, Tetonbaum." She moves away.

"What if it did change—" Tetonbaum follows her up the shaft. "Hear me out." He stops her by the hand and pulls her back to him.

Braith's hand slaps to the cloth over his hard chest, her eyes igniting with pink fire.

Tetonbaum's power melds with his mind. A mating dance is now afoot.

…Why don't you mate your powers together, Tetonbaum?…

Braith backs her power off from his, self-initiated by sudden trepidation. "No…" She turns again, and he touches her power with his own—blue fire moving to combine with hers, and at this touch, such a burning shine begins in the shaft, turning everything silver. Braith rotates to him, standing tall, hair on end as the energy merges.

Tetonbaum steps closer, "…Would it work—if I gave you what your body seeks…"

Braith curls her energy away, trying to separate the light show and Tetonbaum stands before her.

"A seed not meant to be given."

Tetonbaum looks through this display of their energy as it ripples, making the spectacular light, "…Would it be what you—the Supriya—wanted?"

"You belong to Kasumi." Braith shakes her head as his hands move through the wall of fire, his face closer to her own. "I can't."

"I will do anything to keep her alive, Supriya…" He kisses her mouth.

The flames shoot left, right, behind as their energies merge in the ductwork.

Taking hold of her waist, he lifts her and aligns her knees over his hips. Braith looks down into his eyes as he gazes upwards, "…Open to me."

Obediently she raises her chin and turns her face away—to allow him to pepper her burning skin with his touch, their energy encapsulating them.

A strange place to make a child but perhaps the one place they may do so without threat…

Braith murmurs and breathes faster as he kisses and injects chills to her neck and jaw, trying to relax her into the act…

She fidgets against each building caress of his attentions, hair falling over his eyes as he turns her, his fingers between her thighs and stroking the outer fabric stretching from the seam of her pants. Dampness increases in the area between her legs.

She is ready, best be quick about it…He lays Braith on her back in the dry shaft, undoes his belt and cloth over his groin.

Pulling down her pants and underwear, he lifts her legs with these articles bunched around her knees, "…Tetonbaum, don't—" He presses inwards, and Braith sighs out woefully sweet. Tetonbaum gasps at the heat and vibrancy of their powerful union, holding himself high in her center while their energy surges to a frothing boil…

"A life…for her life, Braith…"

He moves in and out of his brother's wife, carefully making love to her—as if she were his own wife, Kasumi. He sighs as he pumps his girth inwards, hands on her waist under the blazer…He moves left with his pelvis, stroking her inner walls with the precision and care of an expert lover, taught in all the fineness that can be made of the art...His deliberate strong fingers knead into her back, red thumbs stroking the surprisingly soft yet firm belly, "…Kasumi," he whispers, moving his hips more as one hand glides down to a freckled thigh and cups behind it, lifting the weight of it, "…I want her…Help me, Supriya…Please…"

His thrusts slow…Now is the time.

He bends forward, lifting her lower back up and slapping his hips hard for several thrusts, Braith's eyes opening to gaze upwards at him leaning over her, sapphires replaced by silver light as he takes it to her…He releases—after the final discharge, he pumps in…His face is stoic, eyes alight with biotic fire.

"Hold onto me," he folds forward, bucking his hips in hard to force the seed deep. "For what comes of this," he whispers into her ear, hearing her muffled whimpers, "…I will cherish the child as though he were Kasumi's and my own…Braith…But you will be the mother of my son…"